Gary in SoHo

Gary was so energized after yesterday's Garython 1.0 that he decided to go shopping in SoHo!  For expert advice, he brought along his Shopping Diva, Meryl, and her IronMan boyfriend, Jim.

They are a lovebird couple and very photogenic.

Here we are, stopped for take-out lunch at the swank SoHo boulangerie, Balthazar.

Jim will compete in the "LavaMan" triathalon next spring in Hawaii!

Gary is in Seventh-Heaven to be walking around SoHo with his dear friend Meryl, on the left, and a smart iced-décaf, on the right. 

Same photo as above but with eyes open!

The purpose of our venturing into the weekend shopping hordes of SoHo was to acquire that essential item of afternoon-snoozerie: the recliner-chair.   

Energetic Gary leaped out of the car on his own!  But worrrywart me, of course, I trailed behind them, pushing the empty chair "just in case" along the narrow sidewalks, to the annoyance of many.  (One has to feel needed, no?)

The Pompanoosuc Mills showroom has beautiful, wooden furniture all made in Vermont.  Gary (and now I) have several Pompy pieces in our apartment.

Below, Gary is trying out a comfy chair, with Ottoman.  No recliners, though.

He definitely likes this one, but perhaps in a different colour for our place.

(The headphones Gary's wearing, by the way, are attached to a microhpone attached to his jacket that boosts the sound around him.  The swollen lymph nodes have caused a lot of congestion, including around the eustacian tubes of the ears, and thus some temporary hearing loss.  This neat gizmo, called a PockeTalker, really helps.)



(You can plainly see how obviously Gary needs to be using the wheelchair.)

On the way home, but mostly to placate me, Gary finally did sit in the chair for a few blocks, with LavaMan Jim at the helm!